Key terms
LOLER awareness: key terms
Plain-English definitions of the words used in the course. In the lessons, tap any underlined term to read its definition without leaving the page.
8 terms, United Kingdom version
- Competent person
- Someone with the training, knowledge and experience to do a task properly.
- Interlock
- A safety device that stops equipment working when a door or gate is open.
- Lifting accessory
- Items that connect a load to lifting equipment, such as slings, chains, shackles and hooks.
- Lifting equipment
- Equipment used at work to lift or lower loads or people, such as cranes, hoists, forklifts and lifts.
- LOLER
- The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998.
- SWL
- The maximum load equipment is designed to lift safely in a given configuration.
- Tag line
- A rope used to control a suspended load from a safe distance.
- Thorough examination
- A detailed inspection of lifting equipment by a competent person at set intervals.
These terms come from the United Kingdom version of the course. See what the course covers.